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Very enlightening and disappointing article i could say.

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Submitted by Alexandros (United Kingdom), Feb 19, 2013 at 11:41

First of all, when the Greek, the Cypriot and the Israeli government started the ongoing collaboration for exploiting the natural resources, all sides stated that this collaboration-alliance is not against anyone in the region and is going to act according to the international law. Now the article reveals something different, that Israel would not mind going against Cyprus and Greece so to revise their former alliance with Turkey, i hope have expressed the difference between the two potential alliances clearly, as it is written in the article by this phrase

"Not only will the AWACS planes, in the wording of the Today's Zaman article, "greatly increase [the Turkish air force's] dominance over Turkey's own airspace" but they will also be useful to it in the Syrian civil war and vis-à-vis "tensions with Israel and Greek Cyprus over the issue of gas drilling"

As for the Israeli officials who are working on an apology, they should know that any kind of apology is received by the Sultan as submission, it is exactly what they want. In any case though this shows that israeli government could not be fully trusted by the Greek and the Cypriot governments and this not because they would like to co-operate with Turkey, all countries want and should want to co-operate with Turkey, as long as Turkey is not imposing threats against them and starts to respect international law, but because they would even go against Greece and Cyprus in order to succeed reviving such a co-operation.

Unfortunately, even though the public opinion in both Greece and Cyprus were and are pro this co-operation - alliance and as am i personally, in the end i think that with such actions and opinions disbelief and mistrust will prevail!

Submitting....

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Daniel Pipes replies:

Good point; I agree that Israel's move here is not true to the spirit of its new relationship with Cyprus and Greece.

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We dare you to [95 words]Nazim CairoMar 1, 2013 17:57203953
ı agree [109 words]havasMar 2, 2013 01:47203953
1Turkish chest Beating [44 words]Robert WFeb 24, 2013 15:28203826
Israel never had a friendly relationship with this Turkish regime [135 words]Herbert GrossmanFeb 20, 2013 18:48203724
1Enemy? Trade is booming between Israel and Turkey [52 words]
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Can OzFeb 19, 2013 18:31203659
hostile to turkey ?? [27 words]roger spleenFeb 20, 2013 06:07203659
appeasement hysteria [45 words]BenFeb 23, 2013 16:45203659
3When will they ever learn...WILL they ever learn? [112 words]NuritGFeb 19, 2013 16:48203658
Israel Not Doing Anything The US Has Not Already Done [113 words]M. ToveyFeb 19, 2013 12:52203655
3Very enlightening and disappointing article i could say. [290 words]
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AlexandrosFeb 19, 2013 11:41203653
1me and three other guys [160 words]mythFeb 19, 2013 10:55203652
2There Should Be An Apology For Marmara - But Not What You Think! [43 words]
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2DOESN'T ISRAEL REALIZE WHEN A COUNTRY SPITS IN ITS FACE? [155 words]Ilene RichmanFeb 19, 2013 09:16203649
Relations with Turkey [53 words]Leonard MarkowitzFeb 19, 2013 08:20203644
1... analysis :) [36 words]JoshFeb 19, 2013 07:41203642
1Politics is the art of the possible [397 words]MozereFeb 19, 2013 07:22203641
3A bit misleading again [526 words]AlexandrosFeb 19, 2013 21:07203641
11Israeli-Turkish relationships VS Israeli alliance with Greece , Romania , Bulgaria and Cyprus!!! [173 words]Gregoris GregoriouFeb 19, 2013 02:45203634
2factional differences in Israel partly explain the stupidity [313 words]EliyahuFeb 20, 2013 08:48203634
8The explanation is America's secret agenda, not Israel . [559 words]IanusFeb 20, 2013 16:13203634
Turkey has always been the most brutal murdering country of all time! [14 words]BobMar 18, 2013 13:46203634
2Turkish AWACS. [120 words]Steven LFeb 19, 2013 00:54203631
Futile Israeli Efforts to Win Ankara Back [112 words]Judith DaviesFeb 19, 2013 00:04203629
a death wish? [37 words]RitaFeb 18, 2013 23:04203626

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